A U.S.-based subsidiary of Leonardo will continue to produce distance measuring equipment for the Federal Aviation Administration's navigation procedures under a potential three-year contract.
Read More »KBR Secures $140M in Task Orders to Support Engineering, Rapid Prototyping Efforts for Navy; Byron Bright Quoted
KBR has secured two recompete, cost-plus-fixed-fee task orders totaling $140M to support engineering and rapid prototyping efforts for the U.S. Navy, the company reported on Monday.
Read More »Bechtel-Led Consortium Gets $73M Contract Modification for Arnold AFB Support Services
A consortium composed of Bechtel, Sierra Lobo and GP Strategies will help the U.S. Air Force manages tests and sustain facilities at Arnold AF Base in Tennessee under a $72.8M contract modification.
Read More »FAA to Recompete $500M Airspace Mgmt System Modernization Contract
The Federal Aviation Administration has announced that it will recompete a 10-year, $500M contract that seeks to update the agency's Time Based Flow Management aviation platform, Bloomberg Government reported Thursday. The contract covers modernization services for the TBFM system designed to utilize flight, global positioning system, radar and weather data …
Read More »Insitu, University of Alaska Fairbanks Obtain FAA Approval for Autonomous BVLOS Test Flights
Boeing‘s Insitu subsidiary and the University of Alaska Fairbanks have received permission from the Federal Aviation Administration to conduct unmanned beyond-visual-line-of-sight and nighttime test flights. The effort will help authorize autonomous drone flights in the National Airspace System, at or below an altitude of 400 feet, Insitu said Wednesday. Esina …
Read More »Report: FAA Aims to Transition Enterprise IT Network to FISMA ‘High’ Category
The Federal Aviation Administration has announced plans to recategorize from “moderate“ to “high“ level its enterprise information technology network under the Federal Information Security Management Act, FCW reported Monday. The move to update the FISMA categorization of the FAA Enterprise Network Services program is part of the agency's efforts to modernize …
Read More »National Academy of Sciences to Help Army Form Science & Technical Board
The National Academy of Sciences has received a potential five-year, $30 million contract to establish a board that would tackle science and technical matters of interest to the U.S. Army. NAS will form the group to serve as the convening authority to lead periodic discussions, workshops and studies for the military …
Read More »General Atomics' Chris Pehrson to Speak at TTC UAS Symposium
Chris Pehrson, vice president for Defense Department strategic development at General Atomics' aeronautical systems business, will serve as a guest speaker at Technology Training Corp.-hosted Unmanned Aircraft Systems East for Defense and Government symposium that will kick off Saturday, Nov. 7, in Washington, D.C. Pehrson is one of the 24 guest …
Read More »National Academy of Sciences to Conduct Aeronautics Research Under NASA Contract
The National Academy of Sciences has been awarded a potential five-year, $30.1 million contract by NASA to perform studies and assessments for the space agency’s aeronautics research mission directorate. NASA said Tuesday the nonprofit organization will assemble an independent group of scientists and engineers from both the public and private sectors to conduct research into various issues related to aeronautics and …
Read More »Evoqua to Help Navy Install Wastewater Treatment System at Jacksonville NAS
The U.S. Navy has awarded Evoqua Water Technologies a five-year contract to provide wastewater treatment services to a naval air station located in Jacksonville, Florida. Evoqua will provide its Wastewater Ion Exchange technology for the service branch to clean inorganic and metal compounds in industrial wastewater at Jacksonville Naval Air Station, the company said Friday. The company also …
Read More »Lockheed-Built F-35A Completes Transatlantic Crossing From Italy to Maryland
A Lockheed Martin-built F-35A Lightning II aircraft landed Friday at Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland after it completed its first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, Defense News reported Saturday. Lara Seligman writes an Italian air force pilot flew the AL-1 fighter jet from an air base in Portugal …
Read More »Raytheon Subcontracts SES Gov’t Solutions for FAA Uplink Stations; Tim Deaver Comments
Raytheon has awarded SES Government Solutions a subcontract to develop two stations for the GEO Uplink Subsystem in support of the ground and space operations of the Federal Aviation Administration's Wide Area Augmentation System. WAAS is a navigation tool that works to detect errors in position estimates through the monitoring of …
Read More »Lockheed Rolls Out Tool for UAS Traffic Mgmt; Paul Engola Comments
Lockheed Martin has introduced a traffic management platform designed to help operators of unmanned aerial systems share flight information with other pilots. Lockheed is working with NASA and other institutions to develop additional functions for the UTM system under the Space Act data sharing agreement, the company said Monday. “Our objective …
Read More »Raytheon Secures $77M FAA Contract for Weather Processing Systems; Michael Espinola Comments
Raytheon has been awarded a $77 million contract to upgrade weather data systems and information display technologies for the Federal Aviation Administration as part of the NextGen Weather Processor platform. Under the contract, Raytheon will equip the backend program used for weather prediction with advanced processing and 4D modeling capabilities …
Read More »Quest Software Upgrades Backup Capabilities
Walter Angerer, Quest Software Quest Software, Inc. announced the availability of Quest NetVault Backup 8.6 and NetVault SmartDisk 1.5, the latest updates to the NetVault family of data protection solutions. “Given the current landscape in which admins are constantly being asked to do more with less, the ability to implement …
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